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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA VVENTY-FIRST YEAR ROOSEVELT ASKS FARM MORTGAGE SURETY Kail road oinki ng~ Fund To Pay Mortgages Favored By The President X BIG ROADS ON THE VERGE OF CRASH US! YEAR Most of Them Would Have Gone Into Receivership Had Conditions Kept on Six Months INABILITY TOTvIEET INTEREST HURTING Overhead on Mortgage Debt 50 to 60 Percent of Capital Structure; Sinking Funds Would Have Avoided These Conditions Year Ago, President Believes Washington. .lan. 10 <AP>—Presi dent Roosevelt strongly favors the es tablishment by railroads of sinking funds to pay off their mortgage in debtedness. The President feels that if the ear ners had been reducing their bonded indebtedness, they would have avoid ed the serious threats of bankruptcy which faced some major lines last spring. At the same time, the President thinks the Interstate Commerce Com mission and other regulatory agen cies should take into account the at tempt of the roads to pay off their mortgage debt by allowing them suf ticient earnings to meet their require ments. It was disclosed today at the White House that one of the largest roads in tli*’ country was faced with re ceivers! ip last March. It also was .luted that if conditions had continu ed for another six months, most of (he major roads of the country would have been forced into receivership, principally because of their inability to meet interest payments on the mortgage debt, which in most in stances constituted 50 to 60 percent of the capital structure. \ icious Attacks Made on Accused Bishop’s Slayers New York, Jan. 10.—(AP)—An ex cited crowd of approximately 500 men and women today made a futile at tack on seven men charged with the murder of Archibishop Leon Tourain in the Holy Cross Armenian church December 24 last. The prisoners were being led from | a police patrol wagon to appear for arrangement in homicide court when the crowd which had been kept in order by a dozen policemen made a concerted rush. Women screened, scratched and made frantic lunges at prisoners and Police witli sticks and umbrellas, wliilo men used Chains and their 1 fists. The clothes were partially ripped bom some of the prisoners, and the police did not escape unscathed. How -Ir. the officers managed to get their pi isoners into the building. I )a rk Horse i Selections Are Likely Iwo Hitherto Un thought of Candi dates Are Offered Utilities Offices Pnllj llUpiiOh llnrrnn 111 th«* Sir Waller Hotel IIY .1. U. II \SK Kit V 11,1.. Raleigh, Jan. 10.—Two men. said to be of outstanding ability and recog nized throughout the State for their integrity, have been offered the ap pointments as associate utilities com missioners, it was learned from an authoritative source here today al though the names of the men could not. ,'je learned. It is understood, how ,Vf!r > that they are not among these ' v hose names have been mentioned in connection with these appointments, that they have not sought the appoint ments and that if they accept, most of the people in the State will be surprised. It is further understood fContinued on Page Three.) Hcnhrrsmi Umlit tlisuatrh ‘FLOWERS’ THAT BLOOM IN WINTER *- • - j Did you ever see two flowers blooming in the snow? Here are a couple, not of the horticultural variety, but human flowers. They are Robert and William Flowers, aged two and four respectively, sons of Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Flow ers of New Lexington, O. This photo was snapped one recent SALES TAX DUE AND PAYABLE ON TAN. 15 I L . Remittances by Merchants To Be Considered Delin quent After Then THREE TYPES OF TAY Hut All Must Pay Now Up To Jan uary 1; Time for Leniency Now Passed, Director Harry Mc- Mullan Declares Daily Dispatch Bureau In the Sir Walter Hotel, ill J. C. IIASKKitVILL.. Raleigh, Jan. 10. —Sales tax returns from every one of the 28,600 register ed merchants in the State will be due January 15, and the Sales Tax Division of the Department of Re venue is expecting these returns to be in the mails Iby not later than January 15, or will consider them as being delinquent, Director Harry Mc- Mullan said today. Heretofore the sales tax division has been unusually lenient in overlooking returns that have come in after the date upon which they were due, since the law was new and many merchants did not fully understand, it. The law has now been in effect six months, with the tesult that there is no longer any rea son why it should not be thoroughly understood or why merchants should not make their sales tax return by the fifteenth of every month. “We have tried to be just as len ient and patient with the merchants as possible and to give them the benefit of every doubt.” McMullan said. “But we are now convinced that the time has passed to continue this policy and that there is no longer any reason why all the merchants should not be required to make their returns when they are due, as the law re quires.” Both retail and wholesale merchant must make returns by Decemlber 15. and merchants who have been doing a wholesale and retail business must make separate returns. Ail of those who have been doing * a wholesale business must pay the minimum tax of $12.50 for the six months period ending December 31, regardless of whether the wholesale tax of one twenty-fifth of one per cent amounts to this much or not. If the total tax due is in excess of $12.50 for the six months period, this amount will be credited on the entire amount due, McMullan said. Three different types of returns will be required from the retail mer chants as follows: 1. Those who have already made returns every month, with the excep tion of December will be required to send in returns for the month of De cember only. 2. Those merchants whose collec tions have amounted to less than $lO a month and who have hence been sendii g in teturns only every three months, will fbe required to send in their collections for October, Novem ber and December. 3. Those merchants who have not yet made any returns whatever, either through misunderstanding or because their collections have amount cl to less tlar. $lO for the quarter, must send in returns and collections (Continued on Page Three.) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIKIINIA. LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. HENDERSON N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 10, 1934 morning after the boys had slipped out of bed and out of their nightgowns, unbeknown ti mama and papa and went for a race in the snow on the tricycles Santa Claus brought. Soon after the photographer caught them, the parents caught them, too, and —well, the race was over. Famed Old China Army In Revolt 19th Route Army Joins Fukien Re bels; U. S. Mission aries Feared For (By the Associated Press) The most famous fighting unit in all China, the 19th route army, which defended Shanghai from the Japan ese in 1932, has turned rebel. The 19th is fighting fiercely in Fukien province against the combin ed forces of General Chiang Kal Shek for whom they battled just as fiercely two years. , Originally the 19th was a Cantonese outfit. It received its fame from the fact it was given a certain territory or “route” to defend. During Japanese hostilities, it was hurled into the main defense path and stood the brunt of the battle of Shanghai. grave fears felt for AMERICAN MISSIONARIES Foochow, China. Jan. 10 (AP) — Grave fears were held today for the safety of six American Methodist Episcopal missionaries isolated in the fighting zone of rebellious Fukien province, who have not been heard from for ten days. All of the missionaries, whose head quarters are in New York, were caught in the Min valley fighting area around the town of Kutein. Since then communication lines have been severed and all efforts to get in touch with them have been fruitless. Shot That Killed Miss Childers Had Downward Course North Wilkesboro, Jan. IQ. — (AP)—-Leota Childress’ body was removed from its grave of ten days today and an autopsy per formed to determine the course of the bullet which killed her uary 5. Solicitor John R. Jones, sheriff's officers, Dr. A. J. Eller, county health officer, and Dr. G. T. Mit chell, went to Benham church graveyard ,25 miles from here, opened the grave and performed the autopsy there. The physician’s examination of the/ /body disclosed the bullet which entered the heart ranged slightly downward. The bullet was located and was of 22 calibre. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight and Thursday; warmer Thursday. Milk Blockade In Chicago Is Ended Chicago, Jan. 10.—(AP)— The Chicago milk blockade was ended today on a truce reached between warring factions in a conference with Mayor Edward J. Kelly. The mayor announced milk de liveries would be resumed this aft ernoon after five days of violence that have left Chicago almost miik less. E. M. Crawl, publicity director oi Pure Milk, denied that milk de liveries would be resumed until a meeting of 350 farmers of Pure Milk's advisory committee had held a meeting, lie denied knowledge of the truce and said lie believed Kelly’s statement was untrue. Hoover Postmaster General Says He Will Appear at Investigation If He Is Called SEARCH CONTINUES FOR LOST LETTERS Post Office Department Building Being Searched From Basement to Tower To Locate Correspondence on Air Mail Contracts, Said To Have Been Burned New York, Jan. 10.— (AP) —Walter E. Brown, former postmaster general, whose air mail contracts are under scrutiny by a Senate committee, said today he would appear before the committee, if asked to testify “to the facts.” DEPARTMENT IS SEARCHED FOR MISSING MAH, FILES Washington, Jan. 10.— (AP) — Tnc Post Office Department was being searched anew from basement to tower today for the missing air mail correspondence of Walter E. Brown, former postmaster general, despite sworn testimony that his files had been burned. Postal inspectors and agents for a Senate investigating committee poked into every nook and cranny of the weathered gray stone building. Their search was actuated by a denial from the Hoover administration postal chief of testimony by his former stenographer that he personally had supervised the burning just before last March 4. Charlotte Bonds For New Schools Upheld by Court Raleigh Jan. 10.—(AP) — The Supreme Court today, with Asso ciate Justice Adams writing the opinion, upheld the right) of Mecklenburg county to issue $438,- 200i bonds to use $400,000 for school buildings in Charlotte. The court handed down 54 op inions, but the case involving the $20,000,000 Smith Reynolds estate was not included in the list. No error was found in the trials of Theodore Cooper and Clyde Farrrell, Durham county men sen tenced to be electrocuted for first degree murder. The opinions were written by Associate Justice Con nor. Greece To Ban Insult January3l London, Jan. 10.— (AP) —Foreign Minister Dimitri Maximos, of Greece, declared in an exclusive interview granted The Associated Press today that his government’s decision that iSlamuel Insull must leave Greece by the end of January is final and ir revocable. The former American utilities op erator, given an extension of his police permit to allow him to remain until January 31, is wanted in the United States to face charges grow ing out of the collapse of his utilities empire. Running Milk Strike Blockade —— : : 1 • Escorted front and rea»- by police automobiles, milk trucks of non-strik ing dairymen are shown running the strike blockade from Wisconsin into Chicago. More than 18,000 milk producers struck in the area shown in map. which covers parts of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. Dairymen objected to proposed cut in prices and thousands of gallons of milk were ooured over highways by strike pickets. tCe-nJvt* Prcar Virginia’s Budget Is 82 Million Restores Half Pay Cut, Wipes Out De ficit and Will Give Surplus by 1936 Richmond, Va., Jan. 10. —(AP) — Governor Pollard today recommended to the Virginia General Assembly an $82,119,548 biennial budget, which he said would permit restoration of one lialf of the 30 percent cut applied to departmental appropriations in the last two years, discharge a pending deficit of $2,131,000 and leaving a quar ter million dollar surplus two years hence. To supplement falling revenues, he asked approval of a proposed dis pensary system oi selling Hard liquors estimating State traffic at $3,350,000 and advocated an increase of from 1 1-8 to three percent in the tax on certain public utilities receipts, de signde to bring in $1,050,000. FOUR GUARDS HELD IN CONVICT DATH Greenville, S. C., Jan. 10. —(AP) H. Posey Dill, W. M. Forrester, C. B. Baker and Julius Hightower, for mer Greenville county chaingang guards, were indicted for murder to day in connection with the death ot Roy Hudson, Negro, convict, at tne Tigerville camp, last October 25. ,N SKer Contord Man Held for Mur der for Killing His Senior Last October Concord, Jan. 10 (AP)—The grand jury in Superior court here today re turned a true bill charging Frank A. Pounds, 30, manager of the Ameri can Service Company office here, with murdering his father, A. B. Pounds, in the son’s office last Oc tober. The date of trial was still unde termined. * swith SHRDLU ETAOIN SHRDL U Young Pounds said he shot his 55- year-old father to death in self-de fense, after the older man had threatened him and members of the family. Witnesses at the inquest told of threats of the elder Pounds against his son and other members of the fa mily, and said the father struck Frank with a stick several times just before the shooting. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Charges of Misconduct Laid Against Former Tammany Bridge Authority TOOK BROKERAGE FEE Lemmerman Alleged To Have Been Paid for Consummating Rental of Offices to City in Financial District New York, Jan. 10 (AiP) —A sen sation in Mayor Miorella H. LaGuar dia’s investigation of the Tammany regime be toppled from power came today with a disclosure that charges of misconduct had been filed against Fred D. Lemmerman, commissioner of the tri-borough bridge authority, which is in charge of a $60,000,000 bridge project. The charges were filed on behalf of the mayor by his new commission er of accounts, Paul Blanshard, long a foe of the old city admimstfaTion, and now conducting an exhaustive in quiry into its acts. Lemmerman was accused of receiv ing $930 as broker fee from the own ers of a building for consummating a lease for bridge authority offices. The rental for the offices, in the fi nancial district, was fixed at $24,000 a year. The bridge authority is in charge of a giant span linking Manhattan, the Bronx and Queens, work on which has been started. IREWA WORKS ARE PASSED UPON Larger Counties Benefit In Latest Project To Be Approved Dally Dispatch Bureau, ' In the Sir Walter Hotel. BV J. C. B ASKER. VIIjIj . Raleigh, Jan. 10—The Civil Works Administration is continuing to ap prove new projects as rapidly as they can be investigated and found wor thy, Mrs. Thomas O’Berry, State CWA administrator, said today. A total of 86 new projects, providing 2,459 jobs for unemployed, were approved during the last 24 hours, with addi tional projects due to be given ap proval today. These 86 new projects call for a payroll of $254,049, while the total cost, including both wages and materials, will be $325,247. Many of these projects are designed to provide employment for unemployed women, including clerks and teach ers. Some of these projects are as fol lows: Durham county: Grading and drain ing of Anderson street, city of Dur ham, 84 men, $9,120 payroll, total cost $10,513. Roadside planting of trees (Continued on Paze Three.) 6 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Principal Should Be Assured By Government as Well As Interest, Exe. cutive Asserts SPECIAL MESSAGE IS SENT TO HOUSE Another Message Looked for During Afternoon, Asking Senate To Ratify St. Law* rence Waterways Treaty With Canada; Veterans Slashes Make Big Saving Washington, Jan. 10.—(AP)— Con sidering it “a moral obligation,” Pres ident Roosevelt called on Congress today to legislate a Federal guaran tee of principal as well as Interest of farm mortgage re-financing funds. His concise special message coin cided with arrival before the House of the first appropriations bill front committee aggregating $566,335,000 for 16 independent Federal agencies in the fiscal year beginning July i This measure is slated for rapid. House dispatch to the Senate to take its place there beside the District qf Columbia liquor regulation bill passed by the House late yesterday. The Senate today adopted an Amend ment to the liquor tax bill to per mit newspapers and periodicals Car rying liquor advertisements to cir culate in dry states. Senate leaders expected to get front lire President a second message this afternoon seeking ratification of the St. Lawrence waterway treaty, but. final arrangements remained to bo made at the White House. They were acquainted also with th« fact that Mr. Roosevelt expects soon to ask $1,166,000,000 additional appro priations to carry the emergency pro gram from now until June. This is in line with his budget message. With railroad legislation due for de bate, it became known today that he favors establishment by the railroads of sinking funds to pay off their tremendous mortgage indebtedness. He favored the same course for utili ties companies. The appropriations committee told the savings in veterans’ expen ditures under the economy act would reach $265,000,000 a year. It proposed extension of that law, including a ten percent cut for Federal pay instead of the present 15 percent. In his message the President ack nowledged tnat technically the farm credit bond guarantee would increase (Continued .»«• Thr**..) Greenville Negro Held In Assault Accused of Clubbing Man and Criminal Attack on Young Woman Companion Greenville, N. C., Jan. 10. —(AP) — James Green, 24, was being held to day as the Negro who beat Steve Edwards, Pitt county farmer, with a club Sunday, stole his automobile and criminally assaulted Miss Marie House. Sheriff S. A. Whiethurst said Green who is in an unannounced jail, had confessed the assault. The Negro was captured at Blackjack, 12 miles from here, yesterday and was carried to a jail in another county before officers, disclosed his arrest. Edwards, who is 28 years old and married, was attacked on a side road four miles from here, where he said he had stopped his car to look aft*? his lights. The Negro came up from behind him, he said, struck him with a club, and, while he lay half con scious, drove off in the automobile with the girl. Miss House told officers the Ne gro attacked her and put her out of the oar on a road in Pactolus town ship. She went to the home of a far mer and received medical attention there. Edwards came to a hospital here where 14 stitches were taken to close a gash in his head. He was released from the hospital yesterday.
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